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Rudy Giuliani

Rudy Giuliani
Giuliani in 2019
107th Mayor of New York City
In office
January 1, 1994 – December 31, 2001
Preceded byDavid Dinkins
Succeeded byMichael Bloomberg
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
In office
June 3, 1983 – January 1, 1989
PresidentRonald Reagan
Preceded byJohn S. Martin Jr.
Succeeded byOtto G. Obermaier
United States Associate Attorney General
In office
February 20, 1981 – June 3, 1983
PresidentRonald Reagan
Preceded byJohn H. Shenefield
Succeeded byD. Lowell Jensen
Personal details
Born
Rudolph William Louis Giuliani

(1944-05-28) May 28, 1944 (age 80)
New York City, U.S.
Political partyRepublican (1980–present)
Other political
affiliations		Liberal (statewide)
Independent (1975–1980)
Democratic (before 1975)
Spouses
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(m. 1968; div. 1982)​
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(m. 1984; div. 2002)​
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(m. 2003; div. 2019)​
Children
EducationManhattan College (BA)
New York University (JD)
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Rudolph William Louis Giuliani (/ˌdʒuːliˈɑːni/ JOO-lee-AH-nee, Italian: [dʒuˈljaːni]; born May 28, 1944) is an American politician and disbarred lawyer who served as the 107th mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. He previously served as the United States Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 1983 and the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1983 to 1989.[1][2][3]

Giuliani led the 1980s federal prosecution of New York City mafia bosses as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.[4][5] After a failed campaign for Mayor of New York City in the 1989 election, he succeeded in 1993, and was reelected in 1997, campaigning on a "tough on crime" platform.[1][6] He led New York's controversial "civic cleanup" from 1994 to 2001.[1][7] and appointed William Bratton as New York City's new police commissioner.[6] In 2000, he ran against First Lady Hillary Clinton for a U.S. Senate seat from New York, but left the race once diagnosed with prostate cancer.[8][9] For his mayoral leadership following the September 11 attacks in 2001, he was called "America's mayor"[6] and was named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2001.[10][11]

In 2002, Giuliani founded a security consulting business, Giuliani Partners,[1] and acquired, but later sold, an investment banking firm, Giuliani Capital Advisors. In 2005, he joined a law firm, renamed Bracewell & Giuliani.[1] Vying for the Republican Party's 2008 presidential nomination, Giuliani was an early frontrunner[12] yet did poorly in the primary election; he later withdrew and endorsed the party's subsequent nominee, John McCain.[6] After declining to run for New York governor in 2010 and for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, Giuliani turned his focus to his business firms.[1][13][14]

After advising Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign and early administration, Giuliani joined President Trump's personal legal team in April 2018, remaining on it during the 2020 presidential election. His activities as Trump's attorney have led to allegations that he engaged in corruption and profiteering.[5][11][15] In 2019, Giuliani was a central figure in the Trump–Ukraine scandal.[15][16] Following the 2020 election, he represented Trump in many lawsuits filed in attempts to overturn the election results, making false and debunked allegations about rigged voting machines,[17][18] polling place fraud,[19] and an international communist conspiracy.[18][20] Giuliani spoke at the rally preceding the January 6 United States Capitol attack, where he made false claims of voter fraud and called for "trial by combat".[21] Later, he was also listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the federal prosecution of Trump's alleged attempts to overturn the election.[22] In August 2023, he was indicted in the prosecution related to the 2020 election in Georgia,[23] Later in 2023, Giuliani lost a $148-million defamation lawsuit for his false claims about two election workers in Georgia, and unsuccessfully attempted to declare bankruptcy;[24][25] he was ordered to surrender personal assets in October 2024 as part of the damages awarded to the election workers.[26] In April 2024, he was indicted on charges related to the 2020 election in Arizona.[27] He was later disbarred in the state of New York in July,[28] and in the District of Columbia in September.[29]

  1. ^ a b c d e f Robertiello, Gina M. (2012). "Giuliani, Rudolph". In Miller, Wilbur R. (ed.). The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encyclopedia. Thousand Oaks CA, New Delhi, London: SAGE Publications. pp. 698–699. ISBN 9781412988780. Archived from the original on November 7, 2023. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  2. ^ "Nomination of Rudolph W. Giuliani To Be an Associate Attorney General". The American Presidency Project. presidency.ucsb.edu. February 20, 1981. Archived from the original on November 23, 2020. Retrieved May 22, 2023.
  3. ^ "Order of the Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division" (PDF). July 2, 2024. Retrieved July 2, 2024.
  4. ^ The crime families were the Genovese, Gambino, Lucchese, Colombo, and Bonanno. For more on this, see Winerip, Michael (June 9, 1985). "High-profile prosecutor". The New York Times. p. 37. Archived from the original on January 6, 2021. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
  5. ^ a b Davidson, Adam (May 3, 2018). "Rudy Giuliani and the desperate campaign to protect the president". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on November 27, 2020. Retrieved May 22, 2023.
  6. ^ a b c d Kelling, George L.; Coles, Catherine M. (1996). Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order And Reducing Crime In Our Communities. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 143–144. ISBN 9780684837383. Archived from the original on February 17, 2024. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference McKee-1998 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ Sheehy, Gail (June 2000). "When Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani did battle for a Senate seat". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on December 21, 2020. Retrieved July 7, 2022.
  9. ^ Bumiller, Elisabeth (May 20, 2000). "The Mayor's decision: The overview; cancer is concern". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 24, 2020. Retrieved May 22, 2023.
  10. ^ "Person Of The Year 2001". Time. Archived from the original on September 28, 2010. Retrieved May 22, 2023.
  11. ^ a b Bergengruen, Vera; Bennett, Brian (October 31, 2019). "How Rudy Giuliani's pursuit of money and power may cost Donald Trump dearly". Time. Archived from the original on December 18, 2020. Retrieved May 22, 2023.
  12. ^ Cohen, Marty; Karol, David; Noel, Hans; Zaller, John (2008). The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform. University of Chicago Press. p. 338. doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226112381.001.0001. ISBN 9780226112374.
  13. ^ Gross, Samantha; Gormley, Michael (December 22, 2009). "Rudy Giuliani 2010: Ex-Mayor announces that he won't run for office". The Huffington Post. Archived from the original on January 2, 2010.
  14. ^ Eilperin, Juliet (February 8, 2012). "Rudy Giuliani doesn't regret sitting out 2012 race". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 15, 2020. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
  15. ^ a b Roth, Andrew (October 30, 2019). "Unravelling Rudolph Giuliani's labyrinthine ties to Ukraine". The Guardian. Archived from the original on December 13, 2020. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
  16. ^ "Trump impeachment: The short, medium and long story". BBC News. February 5, 2020. Archived from the original on January 11, 2021. Retrieved May 22, 2023.
  17. ^ Kessler, Glenn (November 23, 2020). "Giuliani keeps peddling debunked falsehoods on behalf of Trump". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on January 4, 2021. Retrieved March 19, 2021.
  18. ^ a b Timm, Jane C. (November 19, 2020). "Rudy Giuliani baselessly alleges 'centralized' voter fraud at free-wheeling news conference". NBC. Archived from the original on November 14, 2022. Retrieved November 13, 2022.
  19. ^ Kiely, Eugene; Farley, Robert (June 24, 2021). "Rudy Giuliani's Bogus Election Fraud Claims". FactCheck.org. Archived from the original on November 5, 2022. Retrieved November 4, 2022.
  20. ^ "Rudy Giuliani baselessly links new election fraud claims to 'communist money' from Venezuela – video". The Guardian. Reuters. November 19, 2020. Archived from the original on January 5, 2021. Retrieved December 26, 2021.
  21. ^ Kilander, Gustaf (January 6, 2021). "Rudy Giuliani calls for 'trial by combat' to settle election in rant at wild DC rally". The Independent. Washington, DC. Archived from the original on October 6, 2021. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
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  25. ^ Cite error: The named reference Kates-2024 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  26. ^ Chen, Stefanos (October 29, 2024). "What Giuliani Is Losing: The Co-op. The Yankees Swag. The Convertible". The New York Times.
  27. ^ Cite error: The named reference Billeud-2024 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  28. ^ Marcelo, Philip (July 2, 2024). "Giuliani is disbarred in New York as court finds he repeatedly lied about Trump's 2020 election loss". Associated Press News.
  29. ^ Sneed, Tierney (September 26, 2024). "Rudy Giuliani disbarred in DC as part of 2020 election lies fallout | CNN Politics". CNN. Retrieved September 26, 2024.

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